quaggy

Example Sentences

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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2016

The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.

From Alton of Somasco by Bindloss, Harold

Sky and water brightened while he swam; and as he rose, wrapped in the leaden weight of dripping clothes, the sun, before and above him, touched wonderfully the quaggy bank and parched grasses.

From Dragon's blood by Rideout, Henry Milner

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. 

From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

The ground was often deep and quaggy, and the horsemen several times checked their speed, and went at a slow walk, one advancing on foot along the track to guide the way.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)